1 -*- mode: org; fill-column:65 -*-
3 This is the GIT repository for the development of Org-mode, an
4 Emacs mode for organizing your life.
6 The text below explains the rules for participating in Org-mode
12 1. The git repository is hosted publicly at repo.or.cs. Anyone
13 can get a clone of the current repository state using the
16 git clone git://repo.or.cz/org-mode.git
18 Having a clone is sufficient to start hacking and to produce
19 patches that can easily and consistently be applied to the
22 2. People who are interested to participate in the Org-mode
23 development can do so by sending patches to
24 emacs-orgmode@gnu.org.
26 3. An interested developer can also request push access to the
27 central repository by sending his/her user-info at repo.or.cz
28 the maintainer of Org-mode. By requesting push access, you
29 acknowledge that you have read and agreed with the following
32 - Org-mode is part of Emacs. Therefore we need to be very
33 conscious about changes moving into the Org-mode core.
34 These can originate only from people who have signed the
35 appropriate papers with the free software foundation. The
36 files to which this applies are:
38 - all *.el files in the root directory of the repository
39 - org.texi, orgcard.tex, and ChangeLog.
41 - Before making any significant changes, please explain and
42 discuss them on the mailing list emacs-orgmode@gnu.org.
44 This does obviously not apply to people who are maintaining
45 their own contributions to Org-mode. Please, just use the
46 new mechanism to make sure all changes end up in the right
49 - Creating and pushing a change to the Org-mode core requires
50 you also to provide ChangeLog entries. Just press `C-x 4 a'
51 in each function or variable you have modified and describe
52 the change you made in the ChangeLog buffer/file.
54 - Among other things, Org-mode is widely appreciated because
55 if its simplicity, cleanness and consistency. We should try
56 hard to preserve this and I would like to ask everyone to
57 keep this in mind when developing changes.
59 * The CONTRIB directory
61 The git repository contains a CONTRIB directory. This directory
62 is the playing field for any developer, also people who have not
63 (yet) signed the papers with the FSF. You are free to add files
64 to this directory, implementing extensions, new link types etc.
65 Also non-Lisp extensions like scripts to process Org-mode files
66 in different ways are welcome in this directory. You should
67 provide documentation with your extensions, at least in the form
68 of commentary in the file. Please discuss your extensions on
69 emacs-orgmode@gnu.org.
71 The CONTRIB directory will be part of the Org-mode distribution
72 starting with version 6.0 (the first release after 5.20). When
73 that happens, people who want to use extensions will have to make
74 sure their search path (executable or Lisp) includes the relevant
77 After files have been tested in CONTRIB and found to be generally
78 useful, we may decide to clarify copyright questions and then
79 move the file into the Org-mode core. This means they will be
80 moved up to the root directory and will also eventually be added
81 to Emacs CVS tree. The final decision about this rests with the